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(No Model.)

B. O. HICKS. STOCK OAR-STALL PARTITION.

No. 437,597. Patented Sept. 30, 1890.

were STATES PATENT W Or er on.

" BOHN 'CHAPIN HICKS, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR, BY

MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

THE HICKS STOCK CAR COMPANY,

STOCK-CAR STALL-PARTITION.

- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 437,597, dated September 30, 1890.

Application filed February 1'7, 1890. Serial No. 340,784. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BOHN CHAPIN HICKS, a citizenof the United States, residing in Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in StockCar Stall-Partitions, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the stall-partitions for stock-cars.

My object has been to make the partition in such manner that it can be readily folded into a compact compass close to the roof of the car, where it will be entirely out of the way when not in use.

The nature of the invention will be fully understood when considered in connection with the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a partiallongitudinal vertical section, and Fig. 2 is a crossvertical section, of a car embodying my present invention. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are enlarged details of the stall-partitions. section of the winding-drum by which the rope carrying the bars of the partition is wound up when the partition is raised.

In said drawings, A represents the side walls of the car, and a. a are ways upon the inside of such Walls, between which my movable partitions slide, and by which they are sustained while in use. The partitions consist of a series of bars B, connected by wire ropes C and links, hereinafter to be described. The bars are provided at their ends with metal caps D D, which are made in halves, as illustrated, and are united together and at the same time secured to the bars by bolts or rivets d. Through these caps, and through the bars also, are apertures 0, through which the ropes pass alternately in opposite directions-.that is to say, from side to side in one direction through one bar and from side to side in the opposite direction through the next bar, as fully shown at Fig. 4. These apertures are sufficiently large to permit the rope to pass freely through them. Between the bars are located links E, pivoted at either end by the pivots e to the projections F, extending from the caps D. The rope at its upper end is secured to a winding-drum G G,

Fig. 6 is a composed of two parallel disks with a small journal and with just sufficient space between them to admit the rope, which winds upon itself in said space. A desirable method of securing the end of the ropes is illustrated at Fig. 6, in which the hub of one of the disks is grooved, as at g, to receive the end of the rope at right angles to the direction to which it is strained, and a set-screw h, setting against the rope and confining it in said groove by pressure against the shaft H of the drum.

A platform J at the top of the car is provided, upon which the partition is folded and supported, and the shaft H extends from side to side of the car, so as to carry both the drums, and is also provided at one end with an operating-wheel 41. By rotating this wheel the ropes are wound up and the bars are drawn one by one onto said platform, and they fold into compact form with their fiat sides abutting each other, as clearly indicated at Fig. 1, the ropes moving freely through the apertures 0, so that nearly their entire length can be wound upon the drums. In this manner the entire partition is hoisted and made to occupy a space but little greater vertically than the vertical dimensions of the bars, so that I am enabled to stow awaythe partition in very compact form immediately under the roof. When the partition has been raised upon the platform J, it is held there by locking the drums against unwinding and may be low ered, and will automatically begin to fall as soon as the ropes are slackened if the lower bar is not drawn upon the platform J, so as to be supported thereby. To insure leaving the last bar or two in such position that they will be suspended either in'or over the slideways,

I do not pass the rope 0 through said bar or bars, and it results from this that when all 0 the slack in the rope has been wound up said bar or bars will remain in the slideways or I over them,

I cl aiml. The combination, with a stock-car having slideways, of stall-partitions composed of bars connected at their ends by ropes passing freely and alternately in opposite directions through transverse openings in the bars and also connected bylinks, and means for Winding up said rope, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with bars 13, of metal caps D D, bolts d, links E, joined to said caps, ropes for lifting said bars and threaded through them, and means for winding up the ropes, substantially as setforth.

3. The combination, with a stock-car having ways a a and a platform J, having a free space above it adapted to receive the collapsed partition, of a collapsible stall-partition composed of bars B, united by links and adapted to be drawn up and folded upon said platform by the ropes C, said ropes, and the 15 winding-drums, substantially as set forth.

4. The folding partition for stock-cars, consisting of the linked bars, hoisting-ropes threaded through apertures in all the bars except the bottom one,a supporting-platform, 20 and winding-drums, substantially as set forth.

BOHN OHAPIN HICKS. WVitnesses:

H. M. MUNDAY', EDW. S. EVARTS. 

